asciilifeform: the depressing thing about the crapple lappy (and i think i have the one ben_vulpes has, the maxint one) is that it makes me pine for a few square metres of its lcd
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i was barfing at the idea that phuctor is cleanly sliceable into a piece that lives on my box and sends csv to somebody else. very much own thing, from own thread..
asciilifeform: ~correct abstraction~ makes people smarter.
asciilifeform: i've experimented with playing protein structures, yes, through sound card.
asciilifeform: 'the data' is not strictly defined, nor the instrument with which to look productively - raster display, or teletype, or play it through the sound card (i sometimes do...)
asciilifeform: granted, it is difficult to avoid doing this, mentally, on occasion - when dealing with, e.g., vsepr
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu's assertion that 'you ought to take the benzyl ring and look at the bits of the jpeg'
asciilifeform: PeterL: they differ like the letters on my keyboard differ from yours.
asciilifeform: rather than at protons of cancer cell, because you get the notion that they differ from regular protons in your garden.
asciilifeform: you will look at the ~relevant~ zoom level.
asciilifeform: overall i agree with 'folks dumbly copy, paste, dun think things through'
asciilifeform: wake me up when there is any support for this hypothesis.
asciilifeform: PeterL: you may have missed mega-thread earlier , where mircea_popescu suggested that the pictures are unnecessary because the textual representation is possible.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my point was that everyone who worked in chemistry in any capacity since '90s or so, has used it, but no one works WITH it on paper or in head !
asciilifeform: and yes you can close rings, etc. but it rapidly turns into a regexp-like monster.
